Potty training has completely consumed my life. Out of the 100 or so reasons I have for not wanting more kids, potty training is number one. I found myself cruising the adult incontinence aisle at the grocery store yesterday to see how big Max could get before diapers wouldn't fit and I really had to potty train him. I'm thinking I won't. I'll let his future wife do it.
Strangely, Alex is night trained. Has been for a while now. I have no idea how this happened, he just started waking up dry in the morings months ago, and now, if I take him to the potty before he goes to bed and first thing when he wakes up, he's always dry. He doesn't even need to get up at night to go. Thing is, I don't care about night time bed wetting. I say, go ahead, wet the bed. We've got a plastic cover on the mattress and thick night time pull ups. I want him to be day time trained. Sadly, Alex did not get this memo.
My mother in law sent me an ebook on how to potty train in three days. I immediately read the entire thing and I really liked the method. Yesterday I used some of the techniques from the book and we had a much more successful day. We still had one poop accident (two out of the three poops Alex did went right into the potty though) and about three piddle accidents. While that sounds like a lot, this was actually a HUGE improvement over what we've been having, which was requiring a new pull up almost every hour. I'm not following it to a T though. First of all, she recommends taking 30 days off potty training before starting her method, and I'm just not willing to loose the ground we've already gained and put him in diapers for a month, so I went ahead and started it yesterday. Also, she says to throw out all the Pull Ups and just go straight to underpants. I had planned to do that, but then chickened out. Mainly because John was home for the weekend, and he can barely stand accidents in Pull Ups, he probably would have packed up and left us if he'd had to witness poopy underpants. Alex is in last night's dry pull up right now, but I'm considering putting him in underpants today.
I really, REALLY want him trained before his birthday. I know I shouldn't put a deadline on him about this, but damn, it would be so nice to have this done and over with already.
He seems to get a lot of attention from you, with this potty thing (wants to take some of the attention his brother has gained, back perhaps).. he also does not have to go to the potty when he has a pull up. Depending on when his preschool time begins maybe the thirty days is a good idea or at least 2 weeks, in less you can figure a way to not give him the attention that he wants but only the attention he earns. (let him be in his diaper for a while and realize perhaps when you change him or if he brings it up to go that he gets attention for completing the task maybe even the one on one attention he is craving for) The hardest thing about potty training is the fight for the control over the situation when it is only the child that can control his bowell movement(Alex very much can)sounds like a new beginning would be good and could surprise you I don't think you will lose momentum. I wish you good luck with what ever you decide to do.
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